PAWS POTpourri
This is what PAWS stands for.
What is post acute withdrawal syndrome?
This is the neurotransmitter associated with the feeling of being rewarded.
What is dopamine?
These are typical symptoms of PAWS.
What are RLS, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and trouble sleeping?
These neurotransmitters are considered the body's natural opioids.
What are endorphins?
This 2012 film starred Denzel Washington as an alcoholic pilot who saves a bunch of people on an airplane while hammered drunk and on cocaine.
What is Flight?
It is generally known as the longest time that PAWS symptoms can present themselves after abstinence begins.
What is 2 years?
This is the age when the human brain is fully formed and developed.
What is 25 years old?
Simply knowing the pink cloud is temporary is part of this stage of recovery preparation.
These are the three main opiate receptors.
What are mu, kappa, and sigma?
This film from 2000 starred Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, and Jennifer Connelly as they navigate heroin addiction in Brooklyn, NY. "I'm gonna be on television!"
What is Requiem for a Dream?
These are the factors that affect the severity and duration of PAWS symptoms.
What are age, gender, length and amount used, physical health, and underlying mental health issues?
These are the finger-like projections on a nerve cell body that receive a signal from another neuron.
What are dendrites?
Not talking to certain people or visiting certain places is an example of this.
What is setting boundaries?
These are the drugs that commonly affect the gaba response.
What are benzodiazepines, alcohol, and barbiturates?
This 1995 film with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg showcases teens on a high school basketball team whose addiction progresses to heroin and prostitution.
What is The Basketball Diaries?
Cocaine, amphetamines, and alcohol reduce the reuptake of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
It is the transport mechanism that carries dopamine and buds off the axon terminal to release dopamine.
What is a vesicle?
Regularly attending meetings, talking with a sponsor, and continuing with aftercare programs are examples of this.
What is accountability?
This is how cocaine physiologically affects the body and produces euphoria.
What is by binding with high affinity to SERT, DAT, and NET to prevent the reuptake or serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, respectively?
In 1996, Ewan McGregor starred in this film that followed a bunch of heroin addicts in a poor part of Edinburgh, Scotland.
What is Trainspotting?
What is anhedonia?
This is the area where reuptake of dopamine is prevented, causing the mass production of dopamine receptors.
These are some examples of relapse-prevention tools.
What are gratitude lists, meditation, practicing mindfulness, and follow-up counseling?
This is what GABA stands for.
What is gamma-aminobutyric acid?
This 1995 movie is about a man who meets a prostitute while trying to drink himself to death in sin city.
What is Leaving Las Vegas?